AMP Associated Marketing Partners is a full service marketing and technology company with a focus on the non-profit sector in the US and Canada. Our clients are professional associations covering a wide area of society’s needs including health care, justice (courts), information technology, veterinary medicine, and construction to name but a few. Our clients rely on the services offered by AMP Associated Marketing Partners to grow their organizations and attract more members. Our mandates include comprehensive marketing campaigns anchored by market research and consisting of website development, email solicitation and direct mail among others.
Currently AMP Associated Marketing Partners is seeking a Web Designer as per the following criteria:
Scope
Reporting to our Senior Project Manager, you will design, produces and maintains various client websites. You will also design, and produce a series of electronic mail campaigns and contribute to our overall web communications strategy and special projects.
Primary responsibilities
* Create design prototypes, including graphic design, site navigation, and layout of content, for AMP, AMP affiliate and client websites.
* Ensure that the layout of the content is accessible and logical; recommend improvements if necessary.
* Create visual concepts that match the content and the image wanted by the clients but that respect the overall brand for the event or organization; ensure that sites are easy to navigate.
* Build websites using technologies that conform to international standards and make sure that they are universally accessible.
* Perform maintenance and updates to existing websites when requested by AMP personnel or clients.
* Integrate 3rd party web tools (blogs, etc) and social networks into websites when requested by AMP personnel or clients.
* Provide training on maintenance and update procedures to clients who choose to take charge of their own websites.
* Design, and produce a series of electronic mail campaigns for AMP or client related initiatives.
* Contribute to the overall development of AMP and client web communications strategies.
Requirements
* Minimum two years of experience in web design, of which a minimum of one year producing table-less, XHTML, standards-compliant cross browser, and gracefully-degrading code and a minimum of one year experience with DOM scripting and Movable Type.
* Advanced knowledge of XHTML, CSS, and of digital imaging and illustration with Adobe Photoshop, QuarkXPress and Illustrator with formal training an asset.
* Knowledge of JavaScript, CSS and dynamic HTML; experience with Macromedia Flash.
* Knowledge and demonstrated experience with cross-browser and cross-platform issues (IE, Firefox, Safari, etc.)
* Extensive experience working on a Mac platform.
* Knowledge of integration of Social Networking Tools and video links
* Very good spoken and written English in order to design prototypes. Basic knowledge of spoken French an asset.
* Attention to detail, customer-service orientation, and creativity in problem-solving.
* Ability to work in a team and to communicate in a clear way to provide training to staff and faculty.
* Formal training in desktop publishing applications, and photography definite assets.
* Superior knowledge of current web-design trends and techniques, a strong online portfolio displaying user-centred design, and experience with web database solutions definite assets.
* Understands and respects each stage of the interface design process, from concept to page flow to execution
* Understands and respects information architecture and has a good sense of layout and color palette selection
* Takes pride in their work and is open to constructive feedback of their work
* Can provide examples of easily navigated user interfaces as part of their portfolio
* Designers based in Montreal preferred.
Salary
Commensurate with experience
For more information on AMP Associated Marketing Partners, please visit www.ampartnersinc.com. Interested applicants are asked to complete the following online submission: http://www.securewebcc.com/sites/S101/index.php?p=1876